11.121 - Inshore waters

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Waters within the strong influence of land masses, both in terms of physical parameters and of fauna, often arbitrarily defined as waters less than 5 km from low water mark, waters between the continent and islands or islets well in sight of shore, and any seas of depth less than 6 metres. They include the inshore waters of the Eurasian and African continents and their nearshore islands, south to Mauritania in the Atlantic, Egypt in the Red Sea, the Arabian peninsula and Iran in the Indian Ocean, China in the Pacific, and of Greenland, Iceland, the Azores, the Madeiran archipelago, the Canaries, the Cape Verde Islands, Soccotra, the Bonin, Volcano and Marcus islands, the Commander Islands.

Bibliographie

Devillers P., Devillers-Terschuren J. & Vander Linden C., 2001. PHYSIS Palaearctic Habitat Classification Database. Updated to 10 December 2001. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles. (Source)

Nicholson, 1977; Nelson, 1980; Lofgren, 1984; Augier, 1985; Fiala-Médione & al., 1987; Wood, 1988; Barnes and Hughes, 1988; Lalli and Parsons, 1995.